"If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle."

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Source : Speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Summer 2010.

Gary Yourofsky

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“You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.”
“In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.”
“Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.”
“Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.”
“Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.”
“I call my mom and talk to her about random stuff I saw on the Internet. That's kind of the only constant in my day-to-day.”
“We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.”
“God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.”

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